Carlos Vela Quotes

My family are my priority but I've always had a strong work ethic and I like to be busy.

I never wanted the business to dictate my life. I'm sure I've sacrificed and missed out on a lot of stuff, but I don't know what that stuff is, so I just raised kids, and I wanted to be around for that.

Family and personal life always come first and career second.

Pursue your dreams, but don't be afraid to slow down or jump off the train when your heart calls you to tend to things that last - love, marriage, babies, and happy kids. You can always jump back on the train. It's your journey.

It got to a stage where I realised I didn't care about eating, sleeping, breathing tennis because my first priority in my life was always my family.

I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.

My family is my career.

I have a career, which is important, but my family is the priority. First family, and then career. It's a delicate balance.

At the end of the day you have got to do what's best for you and what's best for your family.

There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.

My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.

I try to combine my work with my family, that's what I aspire to. I don't say that's the only thing. It's not all work and family, because otherwise you would be saying no to the many other things in life and there are many other things.

My marriage and my families come certainly before my career.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

I always do a mental audit at the end of the week to make sure I'm balancing time between my career and my personal life.

Throughout my career, no matter what I've done or what decision I've made, I've made it with my family first. My priority was taking care of my family while I was taking care of business.

But I just felt at one point that I was on a hamster wheel, you know? Just doing movie after movie and thinking so much about career related things and I think missing out on hanging with my friends and family as much I needed to.

I have always been clear that cinema is not my priority and that my family is.

I have a kid and a husband and my family, and it's important to live the real life. I don't want to offer my whole life to cinema. It's only cinema.

I love making movies, but I was ready to rationalize being only a mother if my career never got back on track.

I used to think that if I had a choice between writing well and living well, I would choose the former. But now I think that's sheer lunacy. Writing weighs so much less, in the great cosmic equation, than living.

It's very important to prioritize. I know, for me, my family comes first. That makes every decision very easy.

I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.

Since I turned 50, I've had the best year of my life and I now throw as much effort into the social side of my life as I do work - more so now than ever before.

I've always tried to fit what I do professionally into my family, rather than the other way around.